HMS Sleuth (P261)

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HMS Sleuth (P261)
Royal Navy
HMS Sleuth (P261) on September 29, 1944
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Subtle class ( S class )
Navy : Royal Navy (RN)
Builder : Cammell Laird ( Birkenhead )
Keel laying : June 30, 1943
Launch : July 6, 1944
Commissioning: October 8, 1944
Whereabouts: Scrapped in 1958.
Technical specifications

(see Subtle class )

HMS Sleuth (P261) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy in World War II and after.

history

The Sleuth ( English : detective , synonym for bloodhound ) was a boat of the fourth batch of the British S-Class . This lot is also known as the Subtle class . The boat was launched on June 30, 1943 at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead , northwest England, was launched on July 6, 1944 and was commissioned by the Royal Navy on October 8, 1944.

On 26 April 1945 sank Sleuth (Commander: Lt. KH Martin), together with its sister boat HMS Solent (commander: Lt. JD Martin) before Kalambau in the Java Sea at 4 ° 50 '  S , 115 ° 40'  O the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Wa 3 (215  ts ) with their deck guns . Between August 5 and 15, 1945, the two boats together sank 15 Japanese sailing ships in the Gulf of Thailand .

After the war, the Sleuth remained in active service in the Royal Navy. On June 13, 1952, she collided with the destroyer HMS Zephyr in the port of Portland .

After the Sleuth was sold for scrapping, it reached Charlestown on September 15, 1958 , where it was subsequently demolished.

Web links

Commons : British S-Class Submarines  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. (Technology - Classes - Types. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia). 5th edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
  • Robert Hutchinson: KAMPF UNDER WASSER - Submarines from 1776 to today , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X
  • Anthony Preston: The history of the submarines , Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen, German edition 1998, ISBN 3-86070-697-7

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b The uboat.net states October 8, 1944 for the Sleuth to be commissioned. Hutchinson (see literature ) gives September 2, 1944.
  2. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship .